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Gainsaying

Gainsay \Gain`say"\ (? or ?; 277), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gainsaid (? or ?); p. pr. & vb. n. Gainsaying.] [OE. geinseien, ageinseien. See Again, and Say to utter.] To contradict; to deny; to controvert; to dispute; to forbid.

I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist.
--Luke xxi. 15.

The just gods gainsay That any drop thou borrow'dst from thy mother, My sacred aunt, should by my mortal sword Be drained.
--Shak.

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gainsaying

Etymology 1 n. 1 opposition, especially in speech. 2 refusal to accept or believe something. 3 contradiction. 4 denial; denying. 5 (context archaic or obsolete English) rebellious opposition; rebellion. Etymology 2

vb. (present participle of gainsay English)

Usage examples of "gainsaying".

I admit it all, and your gainsaying it, though it be so well meant, cannot change my mind.

As Great Smash was an oracle in her own set, there was no gainsaying her dogmas, and Pliny the elder was obliged to succumb.

Cot was, these vague stories of horror worked as well as any wall, gainsaying any attempt to leave.

Whatever the reason, there is no gainsaying the growth of fellow-feeling and of a curiosity founded on friendly interest,--both of which are revealed far more abundantly in our later literatures than in the earlier classics.